I stumbled in to this site tonight doing some research. It is a company that still mfrs camera tubes for the neandrathals among us that remember them.

Nothing better than spending hours trying to make a camera with tubes look good. Who remembers what tube shading is? And if you need some plumbs for your restoration, they may be available. My Sony BVW-30 would look great with a new set.

The company is a corporate buyout descendent of Philips over the years... if you read the history on a very interesting website...with a lot of history to read that they did not really have to do. My AK compliments to them.

For your reading pleasure;

http://www.nimaging.com/products/tubes/index.html

Dave A

I stumbled in to this site tonight doing some research. It is a company that still mfrs camera tubes for the neandrathals among us that remember them.

Nothing better than spending hours trying to make a camera with tubes look good. Who remembers what tube shading is? And if you need some plumbs for your restoration, they may be available. My Sony BVW-30 would look great with a new set.

Dave A

How very cool! There's been a bit of talk on here lately about cameras, so I'm curious as to how many AKers have vintage TV cameras in their collections, and if so, which models?

...I have a complete Harris TC-85 studio camera. It's been several years since I fired it up, but it did work fine. It was one of the first cameras to use a microprocessor to automate setup and registration. It was used by Harris for testing, so has relatively low hours.

I stumbled in to this site tonight doing some research. It is a company that still mfrs camera tubes for the neandrathals among us that remember them.

Nothing better than spending hours trying to make a camera with tubes look good. Who remembers what tube shading is? And if you need some plumbs for your restoration, they may be available. My Sony BVW-30 would look great with a new set.

The company is a corporate buyout descendent of Philips over the years... if you read the history on a very interesting website...with a lot of history to read that they did not really have to do. My AK compliments to them.

For your reading pleasure;

http://www.nimaging.com/products/tubes/index.html

Dave A
Well!
And is there any manufacturer who produces color and/or b/w crts for viewfinders?:scratch2:

The first TV camera I used was the RCA TK-76 it was big, heavy and could withstand a nuclear blast and still keep working. :yes: :yes:

I think at the time it was the standard for alot of us video jockeys...

after that I "graduated" to several different models of Ikegami tube camera's. then to the Sony chip cams.

I'll always have a soft spot for my Ikegami tube cam.. I can't even remember the model number anymore.. but it was sweet!

Finally, today i use a Sony DVW-709WSP, nice but doesn't have the warmth of the Ikegami tube cam.

So you can still get 'em! Who knew?

I'd be afraid to ask what they're charging for those things. If I recall correctly, it used to run about seven grand to have a camera re-tubed.

I still have the Ikegami HL-83 that was the workhorse in my shop for many years. (I couldn't afford an HL-79 which was the industry standard in the early eighties, and then they came out with that one with most of the same specs. I went to a demonstration in Ikegami's studio here in NJ and asked the engineer what the difference in the two cameras was. He said "Largely the marketing department"!)

A retired RCA engineer offered me a free set of NOS XQ-1427 plumbs at an AWA conference years ago.

The camera looks nice sitting on the shelf and brings back a lot of memories, but I don't think I'd want to use it again! (I still have the indentation in my shoulder from lugging around the BVU-110 U-Matic recorder that went with it...)

--Dave